Leipzig

Strings of oddity that I want to pull at have already been launched my way from Germany.  Trawling through  WG-gesucht  listings (German Spare Room) I am at first shocked by, then grow weary of, disclaimers that no Nazis are welcome in the various student house-shares. How many Nazis will be put off applying by the two lines stuck on the end of each advertisement? How many listings are there on the website that openly welcome Nazis? Does the absence of this disclaimer on other postings mean that its authors are Nazi-sympathisers or did they just… not think they had to specify a distaste for extreme racism? As I am still bumming around in England (German term starts in April… don’t ask why ‘cos I don’t know) I thought I may share some intrigues that my self-inflicted  Deutschebildung  (figure it out from ‘Bildungsroman’ if you don’t speak German) has surfaced. As my German is a lot worse than my French and (blame the Malory Towers books) I automatically...